After visiting Haiti and meeting some of the most friendly and gracious and generous and desperately poor people you can imagine, we committed ourselves to make a positive difference to their lives.
When you see the 500,000 people squeezed into the little, one-room shacks in Cite Soleil, when you see children picking up a handful of dirt to snack on – in a futile attempt to appease the gnawing hunger of an empty stomach, what can you do?
The lack of any infrastructure – almost no electricity, almost no telephones, the few roads are so washed out as to be almost impassable, no viable economy, no workable political structure to even provide hope of improvement—makes it clear the “fixing” Haiti is overwhelming.
We are not trying to “fix Haiti”. We are committed to helping some of the people in Haiti. When you look at how the individuals eke a living and raise a family among this devastation, it is amazing how they make do with so little. With few resources, they do a lot. With a little help, they can do much more. They are willing and able, but they do need help. Haitian Pilgrims is committed to help. We have “adopted” St. Therese parish as our avenue to help the village of Boileau, a community of some 300 families. Our goal is to help Boileau achieve self-sufficiency. To provide them the help to help themselves. To help them have hope for the future.